About Rosie 翁宜寧

I was born in and have spent much of my life in California (mostly in the San Francisco Bay area), with four pre-adolescent years in Colorado. I now live in Tainan, in the south of Taiwan.

My parents are both from central Taiwan, and separately immigrated to the United States in the late 1960s, where they met and married. On both sides, my ancestors are Hokkien from Fujian, China and settled in Taiwan during the 16th century wave of immigration. 

I’m a 妹妹 little sister with one 哥哥 older brother. Both my parents are the youngest by far of their respective five siblings. That makes me the youngest in my generation on both sides of my extended family. 

I mention this because there’s a way that my life has been fated and supported to be one of playful discovery and sandbox excavation. My Taiwanese relatives still call me 小妞, which roughly translates to “little chick,” an endearing nickname that was given to me when I was a little girl, in a way kinda funny for a woman nearing a half century, yet somehow it still works.